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How to post-edit published subtitles

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    [How to post-edit published subtitles]
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    Your Language Coordinator privileges
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    allow you to make changes
    in a translation or a transcript
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    after they have been approved
    and published.
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    If you spot any mistakes
    in a published task,
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    you need to navigate
    to the talk’s page on Amara
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    and choose the task language
    from the list on the left.
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    Then, click the Edit Subtitles button,
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    and you will be transferred
    to the subtitle editor.
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    Make all the corrections you see fit,
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    both in the subtitles
    and in the title and description menu.
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    Click on Complete, and you are done!
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    You can also upload subtitles
    that you fixed offline.
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    To do this, click the wrench icon
    and click "Upload subtitles."
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    Remember that when working with TED Talks,
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    you need to use the .dfxp format.
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    Using other formats will erase
    the paragraph breaks
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    used in the transcript view on TED.com,
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    which you will need to restore
    manually from the editor.
Title:
How to post-edit published subtitles
Description:

After a set of subtitles is published, you can post-edit them to improve their quality. (ONLY for Language Coordinators)

For more LC guidelines, check out the other LC tutorials in this channel, as well as the LC Resources page on OTPedia, at http://translations.ted.org/wiki/Category:LC_resources

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Video Language:
English
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Project:
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Duration:
01:45

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